Mathler
Find the expression that equals the target number. Colors tell you which characters are in the right place.
DleBox's guide
Mathler shows you a target number and a row of blanks. You enter an expression that evaluates to that target. Colors then mark which digits and signs are in the solution, and which of those are already in the right position. You are not discovering the total. You were given the total. The puzzle is which expression the game chose among the ones that land on it.
The daily target and the daily expression are shared. DleBox does not host the row and does not print the expression. The link opens mathler.com. Nerdle hides the entire equation, so you do not know the result until you build a legal line and see the colors. Mathler inverts that: the result is the clue, and the arrangement is the secret. Both reject math that does not work.
This page will not compute today's target. Even the target number would let a willing reader start the puzzle here, and the puzzle lives on the original site. Angle asks you to measure a drawing. Sudoku asks you to complete a digit grid. Neither one evaluates an expression.
Rules
- The target number is shown.
- Your expression must equal that target.
- Colors mark the characters in the hidden expression.
- One expression is the daily solution.
- DleBox does not print it.
Why we like it
- ✓ The total is public, and the path is not.
- ✓ Several expressions can hit the number. Only one is today's.
- ✓ It is arithmetic with placement, not a renamed Wordle.
Play Mathler when you like being handed the answer key's total and still having work to do. Krillion does not give you a total to hit. Its points come from how uncommon your accepted name was.
Several expressions hit a small target. The colors are how the game tells you which of those expressions it picked. Changing a sign to force the total is a waste if that sign is gray. DleBox does not color a sample. mathler.com shows the target and the row. This entry is the contrast with Nerdle: there, the total is hidden. Here, the total is the clue and the arrangement is the secret.
About the game
Mathler is published by Mathler. DleBox did not make that game. This page names the maker and links over. It does not speak for them.
- Category:
- Math. Open the Math category.
- Updates:
- Once a day on the original site.
- Reset:
- This page does not state their timezone. The original game shows the day's puzzle.